related foreign key to own table
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- mcmatak
 - Member | 505
 
how to go through childrens specified in same table?
for example:
table
people (id, name, children_id), children_id is foreign key to people id
1, František Horák, NULL
2, Anička Horáková, 1
3, Pepíček Horák, 1
		$query = $this->database->table('people');
		$query->select('people.*');
		$query->where('children_id IS NULL');
	foreach($query as $someone) {
		echo $someone->name . "\n";
		foreach($someone->related('children') as $someoneChild) {
			echo " has child: " . $someoneChild->name . "\n";
		}
	}
problem:
No reference found for $people->related(children).
Last edited by mcmatak (2015-04-15 15:23)

- David Matějka
 - Moderator | 6445
 
Try this:
$someone->related('people')
if it won't work try this instead:
$someone->related('people', 'children_id')